A user-centric view of intelligent environments: User expectations, user experience and user role in building intelligent environments

Computers

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Kaasinen, Eija ^a   Kymäläinen, Tiina ^a   Niemelä, Marketta ^a   Olsson, Thomas ^b   Kanerva, Minni ^c   Ikonen, Veikko ^a  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c Movial   (Finland)

Author keywords

Ambient intelligence; Augmented reality; Do it yourself; Intelligent environments; Interaction; Tangible interaction; User acceptance; User experience

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898626950     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2073431X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/computers2010001     Document Type: Review

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